We will be carrying out essential planned maintenance work to the Deceased Online server over the weekend of Saturday 21st April and Sunday 22nd April 2018. The Deceased Online service will be unavailable from midnight (British Summer Time) on Friday 20th April 2018 and will be operating as normal on Monday 23rd April 2018. This is the first time in over 5 years where the service has been interrupted for essential server maintenance and we will keep the time where the service is unavailable to a minimum. We are expecting to complete the work on Saturday 21st April 2018 but have scheduled Sunday 22nd April 2018 as contingency period. There may be temporary interruptions to service on Sunday 22nd April as we carry out performance tests and final adjustments. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

With the addition of burial and cremation records for the London Borough of Lewisham, we now have nearly 8 million records across London available on the Deceased Online website. Lewisham is the 14th London council to add its records to Deceased Online and with the inclusion of their sites, we now have 65 London cemeteries and crematoria with all their records available to search.

Wyre Council's cemeteries are located in Fleetwood, Poulton le Fylde and Preesall, see full details here.The inclusion of these records means that there are now 5 million burial and cremation records for Lancashire available on the Deceased Online website with over 60 sites included.

Deceased Online is delighted that the first records for the Black Country in England's West Midlands region have been added to the website. Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council is adding all its burial and cremation records to www.deceasedonline.com with the first set of records now available. You can read further details in our database coverage section.

The majority of burial and cremation records managed by Nottingham City Council are now available on Deceased Online. As one of the largest cities in the English Midlands, the Nottingham collection comprises nearly 1 million records for six sites dating back to 1850. We hope to be adding all records for the historic and closed General Cemetery, which dates back to 1836, in the near future. For more information on which records available, please see the summary in our database coverage section.

With the latest addition of records for Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, Deceased Online now has nearly 3 million records available for the areas of Lancashire and Greater Manchester. With approximately 1 million individual burials and cremations, Deceased Online's 3 million data collection for Blackburn with Darwen, Bolton and Trafford councils comprises register scans, grave details, cemetery section maps and memorial images. Blackburn with Darwen (just to the north of Greater Manchester), like Bolton, has a rich industrial history much of it based in cotton and textiles and associated industries. The registers, particularly in the 19th century, reflect the privations of the poor working classes with extremely high infant and child mortality rates and short life expectancy for adults. The Blackburn with Darwen collection comprises nearly 1 million records for 350,000 burials and cremations since the 1850's. Look out for more records for the Lancashire and Greater Manchester areas coming soon to Deceased Online.

Aberdeenshire Council is the local authority responsible for Scotland's 4th largest region by size and 6th largest by population. Although located within the borders of Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen City is a separate authority with its own council. Aberdeenshire is the only Scottish council to have its offices not located within in its own administration area.

Already, over half the burial records for Aberdeen City are available exclusively on Deceased Online together with all records for Angus, another Aberdeenshire neighbour in North East Scotland. Another major council area in North East Scotland will be added later in 2014. Aberdeenshire Council manages some 200 burial grounds and cemeteries, of varying sizes, spread over 2,439 square miles, and Deceased Online has digitised all records available for each of these. There are nearly 250,000 individual names or burials representing over 600,000 records. The full list of sites is included in the Coverage page. In most instances, the records comprise:

Digital scans of burial, mortality or lair (grave) registers

Lair details indicating all those buried within each lair

The following will be added in due course:

Maps indicating the section of a cemetery or burial ground where lairs are located

Photographs of a small number of the memorials

The earliest records date back to 1615 and the latest are for 2010. There are many interesting records in the area. There are celebrated individuals such as Queen Victoria's friend and personal servant, John Brown, and the first Scottish men's singles Wimbledon champion Herbert Fortescue Lawford. The data collection is very diverse and the North Sea and coastal areas have claimed many victims. Tragically, many of these older records have Unknown bodies and some even feature various anonymous body parts. Some of the registers feature great details such as occupations or status together with the usual range of names, addresses, dates of burial, grave references etc. Other information: Read a selection of blogs about the area and the Deceased Online records in our blog: http://deceasedonlineblog.blogspot.co.uk/ Aberdeenshire Council: http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/bereavement/grounds.

Note: For the purposes of the UK Data Protection Act, the names and addresses of funeral applicants, where they have been recorded, for burials during the last 75 years have been withheld from publication. Aberdeenshire Council have requested that the addresses of the deceased not be shown in the burial register scan for the last 15 years and all details of recent burials are not shown until they are 3 years old.